Chandigarh: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi took a dig at the Congress over the deadlock in the Parliament, saying 40 MPs are “conspiring” to hamper the country's development. In a speech at a public meeting, he said, “40 MPs are conspiring to block development of the country against the wishes of the 400 MPs.” He further said that the time has come to spread awareness about democracy in the country and people needed to pressurise their representatives to do their work in Parliament.
“Beyond Lok Sabha is Jan Sabha and that is why I am expressing my views here. Some people are doing this just for their arrogance. There can be nothing more unfortunate than this. The people will not forgive these parties for their conduct in the Parliament.”
Modi pointed out that no previous government had paid adequate attention to the enormity of the 'One Rank, One Pension' exercise. He said the armed forces veterans should thank the poor people of the country for OROP, which amounts an expenditure of Rs £1 billion per annum. “The previous government never knew what is OROP, its responsibilities and what steps needed to be taken (to implement it) and no government thought about it. Had the previous government considered it, they would not have only earmarked £50 million.”
Modi while lashing out at the opposition saying, “Do not give credit to our government nor Narendra Modi (for implementation of OROP). I ask the jawans they should thank poor people and common man of the country. Even now I am seeing some people have not left their plans to hold protest on this issue. They thought that this issue was so complicated that they would be able to exploit the issue for next 5 years.”
